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Sports—Features

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Indianapolis Times

SUNDAY, APRIL 16, 1950

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255, 000 Fans To

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Al Lopez (INDIANS)

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Clay Hopper (SAINTS)

National League 1950 Managers

I a Burt Shotton (DODGERS)

Eddie Dyer 2 _{CARDINALS)

Bill Meyer (PIRATES)

Luke Sewell (REDS)

Frankie Frisch > (CUBS)

| of the cities holding fran-|

Tribe Appears To Rate High In AA Race

Aid From Pirates Has Given Club Early Advantage The American Association goes to bat for the 49th season Tuesday and the lineup!

chises is the siffié as in the]

league's inaugural year, 1902, No other triple-A circuit in baseball holds that distinction. The Indianapolis Indians won| the AA’s first pennant, 1902, with W. H. Watkins as'manager. They

Betzel, and 1948, under Al Lopez. Based on the Indians’ showing in exhibition engagements with the New York Yankees and the Cincinnati Reds; plus the faet that Manager Al Lopez said yesterday

experienced pitchers, the Tribesters could well be on the point of shoving off on the trail of their sixth pennant. Pack Ample Power At any rate, the Redskins look | as'though they pack ample power to be an outstanding run- making| team. | However, all American Associa-| tion clubs are big league farms)

Eddie Ash Selections AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Indianapolis Indians. St. Paul Saints, Kansas City Blues. i Minneapolis Millers. | Columbus Red Birds. Louisville Colonels. Toledo Mud Hens. “Milwaukee Brewers:

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and the complexion of the eight

to week in early spring. The major, leagues have until May 18 to cut down to the official player limit of 25 and after tha:

| date rome of the AA farms prob-

ably will take on a new look. As a matter of fact, Indianapolis stock soared the moment the parent Pirates optioned First Baseman Ed Stevens and Pitcher

AA Openers (Tuesday, Apr. 18) Indianapolis at Columbus (night).

Louisville at Toledo. St. Paul at Kansas City. Minneapolis at Milwaukee.

Royce Lint, Dino Restelli and Pete Modica were transferred from Pittsburgh to Indianapolis. Tribe Gets Jump Similar conditions prevail in all AA cities but the Indians are believed to have the jump with a “set” lineup to start except in the

power behind the plate.’ As the AA teams point up for| the new race, St. Paul proudly|

| occupies the pennant perch with

nine. Moreover, the Saints are the defending champions. °°

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Table Tennis Scores

Weekly round of matches in the Industrial Table Tennis League resulted as follows: Ell Lilly {Bentucky Block's, oosier oil downed. Ell aly (Penicillin), 6 3 El Lilly (McCarty St.) defeated Gibson

0. 0 3; Peerless Blectric downed tman-Moore 7 to 2.

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Joe Kuhel (BLUES)

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Dino Restelli, Tribe centerfielder, was out trying to steal second base in the sixth inning yesterday of the Indianapolis-Cincin-nati exhibition baseball game at Victory Field. Virgil Stallcup,

that he expects to land two more Cincinnati shortstop, made the putout.

Hear Cry Of ‘Pla

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Rollie Hemsley RED BIRDS)

Photos By A throw-in from Indianapoli

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Mike Ryba (COLONELS)

Newry Glesing Jr., Times Staff Photographer : s Rightfielder Gus Bell to Third Boon Eddie Bockman beat Cincinnati's Bob Adams to the bag in the third inning yesterday as Adams attempted to go from first to id on Peanut Lowery's single. The Tribe won, 3 to 2.

12 Entries Bring O° Connell Collects Homer ABC Tournament And Double for Redskins

National Leaguers/ Tribesters Meet Again Today to Wrap, Up Training Season

‘0 Total to 60

Expect Several Moe - Before Deadline

Sixty race cars, whose hidden’ ipower is capable of screaming {speeds, were entered today in the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s Memorial Day 500-Mile Race. Several more entries, including}

{are expected to arrive post-¢ {marked before the midnight dead- ~ line last night.

day

and put the bee on the Cincinnati Reds in the opener of a two-

game exhibition series at Victory Field. The score was 3 to 2 and the Redskins pushed the winning run around in the eighth to break a 2-2 deadlock. The National Leaguers and the Tribesters will go to it again

today at

°Bin Pierro, rookie righthander, hit in four stanzas. southpaw; with Was_pleased.no_end.by the. per...

and--Royee- Lint;

2:30 to put the finish- ——— {those of the Novi two-car team. ing touches on the training sea- righthander,

relieved Muir and held the major leaguers to one Senor Lopez

Receipt of 12 entries yester- split the Indiang pitching this aft- formance of his pitchers and the ernoon and Manager Luke Sewell

day soared the entry list to

oline Alley crowded. There

once again will be is permanent garage space for 56 cars. Temporary garages will house seven more. After all garages are filled, late arrivals must make off-track arrangements. Only eight of yesterday's dozen entries named drivers and the

forced out of the race at 160 miles with a broken drive shaft.

mound department and batting jHanep Caps, gained a two-

Winnérs of seven are Columbus, tight best and three rookies giv“TRansus City and Louisville. Min-| 2 neapolis and Milwaukee have won| Went into a 2-to-0 first period six apiece and Toledo but one. {lead, and added one goal in each

start

right-

hander. Ewell Blackwell also fay see some mound duty.

The Indians even

Queen City club yesterday, to five, and four of the Tribe's and

blows went for extra

outhit

bases.

O'Connell Hurt

However, the well-

in the tying run. Trainer Jim work on the injury

Pierce

-earned

went

the

seven

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Elmer Riddle to the Tribe last list was topped by Jackie Holmes umph may cost the Indians the week. And just a few days before of Indianapolis and Spider Webb services of Danny O'Connell; the to yphold their status as” big that happened Danny O'Connell, of Dayton, O. Holmes, who quali- heavy hitting shortstop. He pulled jeaguers but the Hoosier pitchers oe fied the Pat Clancy six-wheeler a leg muscle while running out a {last -year- at 128.087 mph. was double in the seventh that batted

immediately

2967 fans on hand also got a

player rosters changes from week indicating that Speedway’'s Gas- of the Reds gaid he expects to great kick out of the team-wide Herman Wehmeier,

balance displayed by their favorites. Big Ed Stevens, ing first sacker, appearance in a.

the fancy fieldmade his first Tribe uniform lived up to his reputation. He got one hit, a double, and hit a low liner in the eighth that almost handcuffed the Cincinnati rightfielder. The Reds used 18 players trying

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Tribe Box Score

CINCINN ATL

. O A E (C ontinued on Page 34, Col. 3) put Manager Lopez said he fears ,q... ABR H O A i ————— n, 3 2 0 the aggressive youngster will have Hatt ton. 3b 1 9 0 3000 to stay out of action sev eral days. Usher, of 2 0 1 00 0 n Eb 4 Ke ings di That would keep the player out @Zrrrimat. cf FE I BE of the American Association open- Cooper, ¢ e300 0 3 1g er in Columbus Tuesday. Jack Litwhiler. rf 20 0_1 0 © {Conway is to hold down the short- Fortier tf, 1 ey 9 fl IS, field against Cincinnati today. Wyrostek. I 1 0 0 1 0 3 Over the Wall . Ratfensberger. » "9 0 0 0 0 TORONTO, Apr. 15 (UP)— .O'Connell felt that he will be Fox. bp 6 0. 0.0 1 0 The Detroit Red Wings, aided by ready to answer the championship perkowski. » 10 0 0 2 Rookie Al Dewsbury of the In- bell, but wasn't too sure about it. i. 30 2 5 2¢ 12 J The hard swinging lad wielded Johnson flied out .for Raffensbérger Mh mes-to-one -lead in the Stan-the big gun in syesterday's- Tribe Wehmeier BIA pFOLE in fifth. {ley Cup hockey playoff finals to- attack. He belfed a home run rH ROH 07 A E night by blanking the New YorK'gver the left field wall near the.gaszail, 2b: T bo 9 3 Rangers, 4 to 0, at Maple Leaf scoreboard in the second inning Resta ib 3.3 i 13 0 0 Gardens, and banged a two-base hit in the Fiuct 1031 80 With Harry Lumley at his air-'seventh, He batted in two of the -O Cotnell. ss i120 a Indians three markers and started ¢ — 0 0 0 1 2.0 ing—added punch, the Wings yy5-45n1y double play of “the game: {i a ete Whitey Platt, who collected two Peters sn i o a0 0 0 blows, batted in the winning run. TE 51 of the Second 2 third Deriogs: Joe Muir, who has been nomi- Tal an for O'Connell in seventh A crowd of 1 a e to , iA-li 002 005 000— 2 cheer about, for their adopted hated 10 work the AA he . INDIANAPOLIS - He lx 3 ar tte nel Johnson toiled five Innings agains ¢ Adan "Platt Mr wo-vate hit Stalleup (Continued on n Page 34, Col. 6) Placi, O'Connell. Home run

NHL Playoff ‘Standings |

By United Press

Reds and showed good stuff. He Ste in the third O° when Cincinnati chalked. its two };, Jndianapolis 5 ‘runs, then tightened and retired the side in order in the fourth and n Binet:

had some trouble

Stanley Cup Finals (Pest of Seven) o fifth. Retroit i 1 § Pete Modica, the

curve

ski ball son. Ti

x Double play—O Connell to Basv

ns. Left on oases—Cincinnati Base on balls—Of ensberger 1. Muir 2. Perkowski 1 Struck out—By Fox 3, Modics 1, Perkow

1° Hits_Off Raffensberg, 1 in 2 5 in 4; P

Perkowski; 5 1 0X, in od

pitcher—Mo Um ApiFag-

1 2; ICA, n 4; Winning Josine pi‘cher—Perkowhans, Glass and Wil-

dica Apple 42.

! champion.

¢¢ State's well-wishes - hockey with - ers as

bets Under Way

Hoosier Quintets

ki On..Opening_Squed

By CHARLES WESTLAKE Times Special Writer COLUMBUS, O., Apr. 15—The 47th American Bowling Congress Tournament got under way here this afternoon .at the State Fairgrounds Coliseum, scene of the 1933 and 1942 classic, instead of Indianapolis where the 1950 event was originally scheduled. Seven quintets from Indianapolis, members of the Ohio Oil _ Co. League from the Speedway Alleys had the honor of participating on the opening “squad of booster teams. And like the other 29 teams found the new pins tough, stubborn and hard to knoek over. Splits and misses were common all along the 36 brand new alleys, Omer Stocker paced the Station No. 178 quintet to 10th place and a share of squad money with a splendid 550 on games of 168-186-196 as the team hit 2234. Close behind was No. 1 Terminal with 2228 sparked by Thomas Greenwood's 505.

On each booster squad half of ;

Victory Dinner Held for Caps

By BILL. EGGERT Indianapolis and the state acknowledged the Indianapolis Caps as American Hockey League .. playoff champions last night with a victory dinner in the Claypool Hotel Riley Room. More . than 400 hockey fans turned out + to welcome - the Calder Cup champions who established a ‘league record by winning eight consecutive -plavoff games including four over Cleveland the overall league Msyor Al Feeney passed out “civic orchids” and Lieut. Gov John Watkins, pinchhitting for Governor Schricker, extended the and credited its Canadian play“a sample of international get-together that helps maintain

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Eddie Maye (MUD HENS)

Opener 3- 2 Pennant Odds

Favor Red Sox

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409 Games, Nearly Third of Schedules To Be at Night

By LEO H. PETERSEN United Press Sports Editor 15—

NEW YORK, Apr.

Weather -permitting — and

the long range forecasts were not too favorable —it'll be ball’’ for -the major league season on Tuesday.

And come ‘October and World Series time, the betting is that

‘the Boston Red Sox will repre-

sent the American League and the Brooklyn Dodgers the National Hn

All ‘16 clubs were scheduled for city series. or exhibition games

Sunday with all of them, except the New York Giants, resting Monday for Tuesday's openers.

The Giants, per custom, will journey to West Point. N. Y., to meet _ Army's Cadets. Despite a spring-long epidemic of sore arms and injuries, most of the clubs figured to be at full strength for the season openers. {Bad weather in the East—after cold, rain and wind on the way north from their training bases— est many of the ame far from peak strength so far as condition|ing was concerned. But in that

How AMERICAN L FAGUE New York at Boston. Detroit at Cleveland. St. Louis at Chicago. Philadelphia at Washington. NATIONAL LEAGUE Brooklyn at Philadelphia. Boston at New York. Pittsburgh at St. Louis (night). Chicago at’ Cincinnati.

respect all “of them 1 were in. the same boat.’ Truman to Lift Curtain Unlike most former seasons, all clubs will swing into. action on the same day. Previously, the Washington Senators started the season a day ahead of the other clubs in what became known as the presidential opener. Nevertheless, President Truman will throw out the first ball at’ Washington Tuesday. In addition to dropping the onegame opener, the 1950 kickoff also has one other major change—a night game starting the season in St. Louis. It marks the first time in history that a major league team has played its opening game at night. There will be more night games than ever before—a total of 409 in the two leagues, 205 in the National and 204 in the American. That is a little more than onethird of the season’s schedule. Some 255.000 fans were expectéd to see the season's inaugurals with Cleveland expecting the biggest throng, 60,000. Capacity houses were assured for the Red Sox and Reds Openers—34,000-at Boston and -36,000 -at -Cincinnati.|

Washington expected 31,000, in-}

cluding the, President, members or Th cabinet and most high government officials; the White Sox 20,000; the Giants 30,000. The Phillies 30,000 and the-Cardinals, in their .after-dark. engagement, 20,000. 245,000 Expected | That sums up to 145,000 for the four American League openers and 110,000 for the National. This season will mark the first in which the majors will operate under the first complete recodification of the rules since the game began. There have been many changes down through the years,

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Ball Tuesday

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Bob Coleman (BREWERS)

Eddie Souve. (PHILLIES)

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Billy Soulineorth 3

Jack Onslow (WHITE SOX)

Connie Mack ATHLETES)

Joe McC RED's0N”

American League 1950 Managers

Casey Stengel (YANKEES)

Lou Boudreau (CLEVELAND) _

Red Rolfe (TIGERS)

Zack Taylor. (BROWNS)

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